[InHam] Fishing Poles

[Brian Murrey]

Gander Mountain is a national chain of outdoor sporting goods stores.  They
have a couple of stores in Indianapolis.  The one I go to is at Emerson and
County Line Road on the far southside of Indianapolis.

They have a website, but I don't think they do any mail order.

W9ILF created a neat little dipole by using the pole as the center mast and
taking two pieces of wire (50' each) and running them up opposite sides of the
fishing pole and then out into an inverted V configuration.  His tuner has a
balun in it so he just connected the wires to the tuner, tuner to the rig, and
was making QSO's in MI, MO, and MD last night on 40m.  He's a backpacker and I
think this just became his newest favorite antenna.  He was using a Small
Wonder Labs SW40+ rig at about 2w and a MFJ antenna tuner.

I may have to go pick a couple or three of them up and play with phased
verticals on 20m...

73


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Noel A. Taylor" <drnat at operamail.com>
To: <inham at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [InHam] Fishing Poles


> What or where is Gander Mountain?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Burns K4RXR" <k4rxr_ at rlburns.net>
> To: "Brian Murrey" <kb9bvn at earthlink.net>; "InHam" <inham at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 8:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [InHam] Fishing Poles
>
>
> At 02:27 PM 6/22/2006, Brian Murrey wrote:
> >A friend (W9ILF) was at Gander Mountain the other day and picked up
> >a 20 foot collapsable Crappie pole made by Creekside.
>
> A few questions, Brian.
>
> What length does it collapse down to?
>
> When you extend it, how do the sections lock together?
>
> Approximately what is the diameter at each end?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bob...
>
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